Designing Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney Is a Puzzle All Its Own
Here's a puzzle for you: How do you combine two series of games where logic is everything without tripping over the convenient coincidences and...
Five Games That Didn’t Need Zombies
That one word evokes an intangible mess of villainy, grotesquery, and none-too-subtle cliché. Sure, the undead have pervaded pop culture ever since we figured out how to make pictures move — but in the context of video games, their presence is especially visible and even embraced.
News Blips: Inafune Leaves Capcom, Mario All-Stars Release Date, Kinect Will “Definitely” Beat Wii Launch, and More
You've got to hand it to Keiji Inafune. The man waited until Capcom finally greenlit Mega Man Legends 3 before quitting. His sacrifice will...
Taking the Facebook Out of the Farmville
Welcome to the Farmville Player Protection Program . I have a confession to make: I have started playing Farmville. Still reading? OK. I know...
Smart or not? Nintendo not interested in making smartphones (reader poll)
Sony is reportedly making a PlayStation Phone in an attempt to do battle for the hearts of gamers against Apple’s iPhone. But Nintendo isn’t...
Updated: Microsoft buys gesture-recognition firm Canesta
[Update: Microsoft and Canesta have confirmed the deal.] Microsoft is expected to announce it has agreed to buy Canesta, a maker of chips that...
Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two Interactive puts a new boss behind the wheel
Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two Interactive shook up its management team today as its chief executive stepped down. Effective Jan. 1, CEO Ben Feder...
Just what you wanted on your jailbroken iPad: DOS and Windows 3.0
Under heat from antitrust regulators, Apple loosened up its restrictions on third-party apps for the App Store recently. But zany developers can evidently push...
Video Blips: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, GoldenEye, Michael Jackson, and More
If Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, does that include frequent wardrobe changes? Video Blips: • Unique Cosmic costumes and a new signature charge...
Zeebo ties up with Chinese set-top maker to bring family console to China
Video game console makers haven’t succeeded in getting Chinese regulators to approve their products for the Chinese market, largely because they are not perceived...